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Over 1,700 Montanans Have Taken Roadkill Home
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Many Montana residents have been taking advantage of a new law that allows them to take road-killed wildlife.
At the end of September, Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks had issued 1,747 roadkill salvage permits over the last two years to people all over the state who found an edible deer, moose, elk or antelope.
Flathead County leads the way, with 252 salvage permits issued for animals hit or found there.
Republican State Rep. Steve Lavin, of Kalispell, sponsored the law that legalized picking up roadkill in 2013.
Lavin tells the Bozeman Daily Chronicle that he has received a lot of good feedback on it.
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